Music-stand.



P. E. ALLEN.

Music STAND. APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, |9113.

1,147,589'. Patented July 2o, 1915.

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APPLICATIONl FILED MAY2l.1913.

Patented July 20, 1915.

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Muslc STAND.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZI. I9I3.

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FRANK E. ALLEN, OF PORT HURON, MICHIGAN.

MUSIC-STAND.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Juiy 2o, 1915.

Application filed May 21, 1913. Serial No. 769,()13.

10 all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. ALLEN. a citizen of the United States,residing at Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair and State ofMichigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in MusicStands, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to music and has for an object to provide a standfor accommodating sheets of music in reading position for the player.

The invention embodies, among other features, a music stand which isparticularly adaptable for accommodating sheets of music known asprofessional copies and which have notes on both sides'thereof so thatwhen the player has finished with one side of the sheet it is ordinarilynecessary that he manually turn the page or. sheet over in order to readthe notes on the other side thereof, thus causing him to desist fromplaying while he performs the operation o turning the sheet over inorder to see the notes on the other side, particularly when theinstrument played upon is one requiring the use of both hands. My deviceaims, therefore, to produce a music stand including a revolublesheet-supporting member and wherein, when the notes on one side of thesheet have been played, the entire member can be readily revolved upon abase or stand proper to bring the other side of the sheet of music inposition to enable the' player to read the notes thereon so that thetime taken by the player in exposing the opposite side of the sheet toreading position will'be very short compared with the time it ordinarilytakes the player to turn the sheet of music around on the stand orsheet-supporting member.

A still further embodiment of the invention resides in asheet-supporting member which rigidly grips the sheet of music so 'thatthe same cannot be blown 0H of the sheet supporting member when theplayer is out of doors, and where a current of wind would ordinarilycause a sheet of music supported on the ordinary stand' to be biownltherefrom or necessitate a reattachment of the sheet to the stand afterthe player has manually turned the sheet over to expose the In thefurther disclosure of the invention reference is to behad to theaccompanying 'supporting barspartly folded. Fig. 4 is a view of one ofthe supporting bars showing the sheet supporting fingers folded thereinand the manner of mounting the spring clamps. Fig. 5 is a vertical.sectional view through the turning element. Fig. 6 is a horizontalsectional view through the same. Fig. 7 is an enlarged sectional viewthrough the spring clamps carried by the .supporting bars. .Fig 8 is adetail sectional View of the vcentral upright. Fig. 9 is a transversesectional vieiv of the turning member.

Referring more particularly to the views, I pnvide the usual base 10including an extensible member 11 fslidable on the base and adapted tobe secured in an adjusted position thereon by means of a suitable clamp12 arranged in any convenient manner on the base tol grip the extensiblemember 11 and secure thp same rigid with respect to the base. The upperend of the extensible member 11 is bent to provide anroii'set bearing13, and carried on the extensible member immediately beneath andadjacent to the bearing is a plate 14 carryinga locking member 15 in theshape of a pin.

A turning member 16 includes an ele# ment 17 provided with a pluralityof oppositely arranged notches 18, 18"L adapted to receive the lockingmember 15 therein to lock the turning member 16 in rigid position withrespect to the extensible member 11, it being readily apparent that whenthe locking member 15 extends through the notch 18, the turning memberwill be in normal position, whereas when the ,turning member has beenrotated on the plate 14 so that the locking member 15 extends into vthenotch 18, tne turning member will be in a reverse position. The turningmember 16 is substantially U-sha-ped, and integrally lconnected with theparallel walls thereof are alined webs 16 terminating centrally of saidmember in semi-cylindrical portions 17- ferming a socket looselyembracing the upare spx'ngs hmbS why the stop are m A' l J lim ,t isarranged w .im mzwvu me up i 9 and the Supporting ur wl'h 'he Y 7 l o.music in pim?,

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In the same manner that the sheet of n1u sic 30 isv supported betweenand upon the upright 19 and supporting vbar 24, a second sheet of music38 can be arranged upon the turning element `to be supported therebyupon the upright 19 and the supporting bar 24, with the same clips onthe upright which secured the first sheet adapted to secure the secondsheet thereto, while the clips 29@l of 'the upright 19 and supportingbars 24 and 24a respectively the turning member can be used toaccommodate the ordinary sheets of music in book form wherein the pagesare turned in the same manner as the pages of a book, it being simplynecessary to clamp or grip the covers of the lbook of music by means ofthe Clips 29 and 29avcarried on the supporting bars 24, 24a.

As shown inA the drawings the turning vmember can be folded into acompact form by first swinging the supporting bars 24 and `24adownwardly to lie in the plane of the channel-like plates 22 and 22arespectively, and then sliding the respectiveslide lmembers 23, 23ainwardly on the channellikel plates 22, 22El so that the supporting bars24, 24a will lie substantially within the channel-like plates, afterwhich the channeL like plates are swung upwardly to lie against andinclose the upright 19, lit being understood that the sheet-supportingfingers 20 have been previously folded upon the upright and that thesheet-supporting fingers 25 and 25a have been previously folded upon therespective supporting bars 24 `and 24a.

, 'Although I have shown a particular forni of my invention it will beunderstood that I do not limit myself to the precise constructiondisclosed in the drawings and that various ydepartures may be made fromthe disclosures without departing from the spirit of the invention andwhich primarily provides a turning element adapted to support sheetmusic and which is revoluble upon a base to expose opposite sides of thesheet of music.

Having,r thus' described my invention, I claim:

A, music stand comprising a bar having an annular flange adjacent theupper end'thereof, lugs risingy from said flange at diametricallyopposite points, a turning member comprising a U-shapedelement-rotatably mounted on said flange, the cross piece of saidelement having a central opening for the reception of the upper end ofthe bar, and a plurality of notches for the reception of said lugs,alined webs integrally connested with the parallel walls of said element and terminating in semicvlindrioal port-ions forming a socketcentrally disposed Within ,the element and loosely embracing the upperend of the bar for supporting said turning' member at the properinclination, channel shaped sheet music supportingr arms pivotallyconnected to the said parallel walls of said element, and a barintegrally con/ nested with said webs'and rising therefrom.

Lr. ROY PnAusoN, E. J. CARAHER.

